Bush Should Have Known This…

…before making any arrogant decisions about intervening in Iraq (even if Saddam himself (!) was unaware of the state of things in the country he lorded over).

(And, needless to say, the UN inspectors would have learned about that without fail, had they only been given the chance — No doubts about it!)

Speaking of the UN, here is more informative news from the organization into which the trust of all nations should be placed…

To return to the troops in Iraq, the cycle of violence and the blood-letting can only increase because of the war, and don't all rationally-minded people understand that?! Don't they see that the presence of foreign troops on their soil only leads to an increase in resentment and patriotic sentiment?

 A military source in Iraq declined to give raw number of attacks, but said, "There has been a decided downward trend in the number and lethality of attacks since the January 30 elections."

    A Pentagon official said the more that intelligence agencies analyze the insurgency, the clearer it becomes that a large part is criminal, not nationalistic.

    Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein released tens of thousands of hardened criminals, including murderers, before the March 2003 invasion, meaning that as the ex-convicts are recaptured, insurgent leaders might have an increasingly smaller pool from which to recruit attackers.

    "We have always realized there was a criminal element in the insurgency that wasn't driven by devotion to Saddam. The numbers may be higher than we first estimated," the official said.

Rowan Scarborough goes on to quote statistics we rarely hear about in the MSM:

An analysis by Reuters shows that U.S. combat deaths in March so far have averaged barely one per day, the lowest figure since February 2004. All told, 1,520 U.S. personnel have died in Iraq, including 1,164 killed in action.

Finally, there is this piece of good news, concerning evidence of "a counter-Jihad":

The condemnation of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda by the Islamic Commission of Spain on the first anniversary of the train bombings in Madrid that took 200 lives is making waves throughout the Muslim world.

    The Spanish commission's fatwa, or condemnation, follows other signs of the kind of public theological debate rarely seen in the Muslim world, openly challenging the dominance of Saudi Arabia's wealthy Wahhabi fanatics.